We draw the perfect skin, create a realistic portrait in Photoshop. Portrait in colored pencils. Draw eyes

When drawing a portrait, it is very important to accurately convey the expression of the eyes. It is not enough to correctly build an eyeball, eyelids and eyelashes, you also need to decorate them correctly.

Since we have already touched on the topic more than once when creating a portrait, today we will tell and show you a few simple tips, which will help not only draw, but also decorate the human eye.

Let's start with a sketch. It is important to emphasize the line of the eye from the very beginning. The iris should be made on the basis of a circle. Due to lack of experience, many draw an eye in the shape of an ellipse - "egg", and this is a fundamental mistake of beginning artists. Similarly, people often draw the wrong corner of the eye, which should also be part of the whole drawing. Do not draw it too narrow or wider than the eyeball.

The eyeball is never perfectly white! In all people, it has a slight grayish tinge. And in the corners, the shadow from the upper eyelid is often clearly visible.

Angular and inner lines are best emphasized with a pink pencil (you can replace it with red) and a skin-colored pencil.

Draw the pupil. First, set the first layer of the iris color. The more shades of the same color we have, the better. Let's start, of course, with bright colors making gradual transitions to more dense and dark places. In the place where we draw the reflected light - the highlight, the eyelashes are also reflected. We show them too.

With dark black, we correct and emphasize the lines along the iris, except for those places where light reflection is visible; they should remain slightly blue. Draw a brown circle around the pupil.

Add the rest of the shades of blue. It is best to paint with short strokes on top of the previous layer that we added earlier. In general (with the exception of the reflection of light), the eye should be painted over bright color. Draw the pupil in black, and lightly press the area around the eyes with a skin-colored pencil.

Shades lower eyelids working on in more detail with flesh, pink and brown pencils. It must be remembered that the line of contact between the eyelid and the eye should be different in color from the rest of the skin. You can set a slightly pink tint here. In dark places we use bronze. It is better to use coloring in a few words: first dark dark and at the end cover it with a layer of cream.

The upper eyelid never gathers in just one crease. It has many curves. We outline the folds in dark brown, lightly rub the bright brown pencil and cover it with flesh color. If we are drawing an eye that has makeup on, we must also emphasize the eyeliner that is applied to upper eyelid. For this, I suggest you use black and dark brown.

We draw eyelashes with a neatly sharpened pencil and constantly check if it is too dull. Eyelashes should be beautiful: bright, long and lush. They should not be drawn with too simple lines, we should curve them a bit. Slightly crossed and stuck together eyelashes will look more realistic. The lower lashes are sparse and much shorter than those at the top.

Finishing touches (eg add white to light the corner of the eye, highlights) and you're done!

It is worth remembering that the eyes for each person are individual. . And like fingerprints, you will never find two people with the same eyes. Moreover, the left and right eyes of one person are also strikingly different from each other. There are times when the difference is not only in the pattern of the iris, but also in its color! Therefore, it is very important to correctly convey the expression of the eyes, their color and size.

Every aspiring artist or portraitist should learn how to create realistic skin tones. As you gain experience, you will be able to develop your own color mixing technique that is convenient for you. In general, the ability to correctly select and mix colors is a real art, since each person has his own unique shade skin. By learning how to create a realistic skin tone, you can experiment with surreal hues and images.

Steps

Creating a light skin tone

I'll have to try mixing a few colors. In order to get bright skin, prepare following colors:

Mix these colors. It is most convenient to mix paints on a special palette. If you don't have one, any other work surface will do. For example, you can use a piece thick cardboard. Put a drop of each color on the palette.

Mix colors in equal amounts. Use the brush to mix equal amounts of red, yellow, and blue paint. Be sure to rinse the brush in a container of water before dipping it into a different color of paint. By mixing the three primary colors, you will create the base.

Compare shades. You should have the skin tone you want to copy in front of your eyes. Compare the resulting base with the shade you are trying to achieve. If you are drawing from a photograph, then consider its lighting.

Lighten the shade. If you want to achieve more light shade, then add paint yellow and white flowers. Thanks to the yellow paint, a warmer shade will be obtained, and thanks to the white paint, a lighter one. Add paint little by little, and mix the colors thoroughly before adding more.

Add red. If you already got enough light tone, but did not achieve a realistic shade, you can add a little red. Consider how red changes skin tone. Sometimes there should be more red in the skin tone.

• Don't add too much red unless you're aiming for a shade that you'll use to paint sunburned skin.

1. Adjust the hue. Again compare the resulting shade with the one you want to achieve. Try to correct it again. If the shade is very different from the desired, then it is better to mix the colors again. If it turned out too light, add a little red and blue.

   • You can create several shades and then choose the most suitable one for your painting.

Creating a Medium Skin Tone

1. Pick the colors you need. In order to achieve a medium skin tone, you will need to mix more colors. Prepare paints of the following colors:

   • red;
   • yellow;
   • blue;
   • white;
   • burnt umber;
   • natural sienna.

2. Mix these colors. It is most convenient to mix paints on a special palette. If there is no palette, then any other work surface will do, for example, a piece of thick cardboard. Put a drop of each color on the palette.

   Mix red and yellow. By mixing the same amount of red and yellow paint, you get Orange color. Rinse the brush in a container of water before dipping it into a different color of paint.

   Add blue. Gradually and little by little add paint to the base of blue color. If you want to achieve a darker shade, you can try adding some black paint.

   Compare shades. You should have the skin tone you want to copy in front of your eyes. Compare the resulting base with the shade you are trying to achieve. If you are drawing from a photograph, consider the lighting.

   Add red. If you need to add red, then mix it in a little. It is better to add paint gradually so that you do not have to redo the base later.

   Create a darker olive shade. Mix equal amounts of burnt umber and natural sienna. You will have a dark concentrated mixture. Gradually add to base right amount this mixture. This mixture can be used instead of blue. For a more olive tint, add some yellow mixed with green.

   Try mixing until you get the perfect mix. Mix colors until you have at least five shades that you are happy with. From them you can choose the perfect option.

   Now you can start drawing. Use one or more options for the painting that most closely resemble a realistic skin tone.

Creating dark skin tones

Pick the colors you need. You will have to experiment a bit to achieve the most realistic shade. Prepare paints of the following colors:

• burnt umber;
• natural sienna;
• yellow;
• red;
• purple.

1. Mix colors. It is most convenient to mix paints on a special palette. If there is no palette, then any other work surface will do. For example, you can use a piece of thick cardboard. Put a drop of each color on the palette.

   Make a base. Mix equal amounts of burnt umber and natural sienna. Also mix the same amount of red and yellow paint. Then gradually add the red-yellow mixture to the first mixture.

Using colored pencils is one technique that looks like painting. In this tutorial, I will show my own technique of drawing a portrait with colored pencils.

Each of us comes up with our own way of drawing, pieced together from various lessons like this, books, master classes and, most importantly, practice. It's not obligatory the right way, but you can't call it wrong either. It's just the process that I feel most comfortable with and gives me what I'm after. In art, there are no concepts of “right or wrong”, there are simply certain guidelines that help us find various directions and create your own rules. Choose what is useful from this lesson and discard what does not suit your methods and techniques.

I'll be using Faber Castel Polychromos, but don't feel like you have to buy the same portrait pencils. Yes, they have very good quality, definitely one of the best, but they are absolutely not necessary condition to create this effect. You are free to choose any brand you like or already own. In this post, I will be mentioning the names of some of the Faber Castell colors that I have used. You can look them up online and find similar shades of your favorite brands.

Let's start drawing with colored pencils!

First, we need to sketch out the base of our portrait. I won't even mention how important this step is. It determines the entire result of your drawing, so you must take your time and carefully draw a close resemblance to the face you are drawing. It takes certain time and lots of practice, so don't be discouraged if you think something is wrong at first glance.

To familiarize yourself with the face you are drawing, create preliminary sketches on another sheet of paper. This will allow your mind to focus and focus on the particular face you are drawing. Recognizing its lines, curves and shadows will certainly help achieve a closer resemblance.

Draw the main lines with a pencil of medium flesh color (medium flesh). I don't recommend using graphite pencils because the lines drawn with them will show through when you add other colors on top. Drawing with colored pencils, you can combine these lines with other shades.

Draw eyes

When the main contour of the face is ready, we can start applying the first layers of color. Keep in mind that these layers will be pale, and we will continue to overlay colors. The colors I use here are medium flesh, Van Dyck brown and burnt sienna.

After the first light layer, we continue to layer colors to increase their intensity. Here I am adding shadows, perfecting the eyes, adding saturation to their deep blue color and start painting her reddish shadows.

I draw the top and lower lashes black and brown pencils. Sharpen your pencils very well to get thin and narrow lashes.

Draw the skin

Slowly start moving away from the eyes, coloring the area under the eye and some dark shadows around the nose. I stick with the colors used above and start adding red for the cheek and burnt ocher all over the skin to balance. pink shades medium flesh and cinnamon pencils.

Once a certain color is achieved throughout the face, you can add shades of sky blue (sky blue) and cream (cream) (yellow pencil that you see above) colors to emphasize the effects of lighting. Add cream to the lightest areas and mix it with light flesh (light flesh) and medium flesh (medium flesh). Apply some sky blue in areas of light shadows, for example, under lower lip and on right side the nose of the portrait below.

At this stage, you have managed to determine the main lines and colors of the face. For the rest of the skin tones, it's practically just smoothing the colors. You only need to continue layering in the darkest areas and finish by pressing harder on the light flesh pencil to blend each layer of color together.

Draw eyebrows

Using light yellow ocher I paint in the brows, and using Van Dyck brown I highlight some of the darker hairs, adding depth to the color.

We draw ears

Here you can see the step by step layering process mentioned above when drawing the skin. First we'll start drawing dark part ear with a dark brown pencil (dark brown). As always, apply this color with soft strokes and do not press too hard on the pencil. We want him to stay weak. Follow this up in the future.

Now decide on a semitone - in this case medium-corporeal (medium flesh). Paint over the areas we've shaded, as well as the lighter areas, without applying too much pressure to the pencil.

Highlight some tones with shades like yellow ocher (yellow ocher) and orange glaze (orange glaze). Depending on the lighting and skin tone, they can be blue, green or, as you can see above, orange. Then take the shadow color again and go over the darkest areas a second time, emphasizing some of the shadows.

And finally, walk around the entire area with your very own light color, in my case light flesh. Blend all layers by painting in a circular motion and pressing harder than last time.

Draw hair

We will start drawing the hair by tracing the contour of the skin color (flesh) more dark shade- brown Van Dyck (Van Dyck brown).

Use the same shades for shadows.

At this stage, I mixed the following colors to draw blonde hair: nougat (nougat), caput mortuum violet (caput mortuum violet), light yellow ocher (light yellow ocher) and cream (cream). Here, instead of drawing in circular motions as we did earlier, I suggest drawing with straight and curvy lines, following the natural direction of the hair to give it some realism.

Continue painting the hair, adding color in layers. Here I'm using cold gray IV (cold gray IV) to draw the midtones and shadows on the hair. But it all depends on what shade of hair you draw.

A little later I painted the lips. I used the skin color pencils I used earlier along with madder and fuchsia to give the pink tint.

What would you draw using this technique?

INTRODUCTION

There are tons of tutorials on how to draw skin on the net, so I did my best to make my contribution a little different from the rest of the tutorials. First, we will talk about several skin tones. Most of the existing tutorials teach how to draw light or dark skin, and only a few of them teach variations in shades. In this tutorial, I will talk about several shades of light, natural and dark skin, as well as how to give it a fantasy or terrifying look.

I will also talk about how color combinations and the position of the light will affect the colors you choose, how to mix paints, and what painting technique I use when working.

For digital processing I use programs Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Theoretically, all programs are equal in their capabilities and functions.

Ready? Go.

I:: BASIC SKIN DRAWING

In many drawing lessons, several skin tones are distinguished: medium tone, shadows, light zones, and sometimes “warm” colors. This is, of course, the right approach, but far from simple. Skin is not a flat, uniform surface; its complexity lies in the fact that it contains several shades. I'll expand on the concepts of skin tones by adding a few notes of my own. Trust me, it's not as hard as it seems.

The colors and shades will change depending on the skin type you have chosen. I will talk more about this in the second part. this lesson. But all skin tones come down to one general pattern:

(1) MIDDLE TONE: This includes the colors that form the actual color of the skin. There should be several of them, with the same saturation, but in different tones. The saturation of tones should be low, in relation to skin tone.

(2) BASIC TONE: We can say that this is the average value of the main (middle) tone. The main tone is remarkable in that it is pale and does not stand out much. All other shades will be built on its basis.

(3) SHADOW: The darkest portions of an object that are shaded by the angle of the light. There are two things to remember here: first, that they are usually very rich, and second, that they are not thick. And the colors and depth of the shadows should vary on the surface of the entire body.

(4) LIGHT SPOT: The lightest areas of an object that are hit by light. This includes any areas of the body that are lighter than the average tone. Like shadows, highlights should vary in color and brightness throughout the body.

(5) GLARE: Highlights appear where light is most intensely reflected off the surface of the skin, usually in oily areas. They are most often found on the nose and lips. The highlights should be brighter than the highlights, but don't go overboard with them.

(6) WARM COLORS: Warm colors are those that give the skin a vitality. healthy look- blush on the cheeks, redness on the knees and legs. They have increased saturation and shades of pink, orange and red. Do not apply them to the entire surface of the skin and do not create bright spots.

Medium, base tone and shadows are applied evenly with high color saturation. Light spots and warm colors, on the other hand, are applied with low color saturation over the base. This helps to achieve the effect of transparency and naturalness of the skin. Warm colors are very bright on their own, but correct use they only decorate the picture and enliven the color of the skin.

When applying light spots, use several shades, with low color saturation. Cool tones (light turquoise, blue or lavender) are great for natural skin tones, but don't forget pinks and yellows; combination of cold and warm colors gives the skin a natural look.

The background will also greatly affect the color of the skin, but I will talk more about this later. Suffice it to say that the color chosen from the background can add zest to your drawing.

If all this sounds too complicated for you, relax. Let's visualize all this on a black and white sphere, and then see how this sphere will be played with color ... on the sphere on the right, a "warm" color is added. I just put a bright spot on a section of the sphere, and look how it has changed, it has become more lively, radiating freshness and beauty.

+ Usage limited quantity colors. This is perhaps the biggest mistake. Some take one color as a base, and use a dark and light variation of the same color to apply shadows and highlights. NEVER DO THIS! You will get lifeless flat skin. The secret is to use different shades. Be bold, mix colors, change saturation, experiment.

+Using shadows with low contrast. This robs the skin of its vitality. This approach also leaves the skin flat and lifeless. One of the secrets beautiful shadows– use of saturated shades. Shadows are neither gray nor black; they are colored, and the more colors you use, the more realistic they will look.

Take a look at this portrait I painted a few years ago. Pay attention to how flat and lifeless the skin looks on the original - the error is not only in the low saturation of the shadows, but the colors themselves are too pale - the skin is almost gray. In the second picture, the skin takes on life shine and form. Here, not only the colors have become better, but with the change in these colors, the shape has changed, the body has gained volume.

It would seem, why is it difficult to draw skin? A couple of wrinkles, some shadows, paint - and you're done! Wait, how do you color?

You need to paint your face with special care, moreover, it is often the most small detail drawing. But in this article, I will look at ways to achieve skin color itself in three of the most widely used techniques.

I'll probably start with the simplest technique - pencil drawing.

Hardly anyone has seen a skin-colored pencil. If you have, then you are in luck. I will talk about color combinations to achieve skin tone. Usually, for these purposes, I take as a basis pink color and add yellow, orange or brown on top in the right proportions (most often yellow in a 1: 1 ratio). You can also take yellow as a base and add red or brown. Combinations depend on desired result. To express shadows, tan and blush, you can use basic combinations, just thickening the colors.

Particular attention should be paid to the fact that if you applied too much of one color, you should not "mask" it with a thick layer of another. It is better to gently (!) Wipe the pencil with an elastic band. But, even if thick is needed, saturated color, then it is not necessary to apply first a bold layer of one color, then a bold layer of another. It's best to apply thin layers of each color (it's kind of like a layer cake: pink-yellow-red-pink-yellow-red...) until you get the thickness you want.

Next I will consider painting with gouache.

There is nothing complicated here. It is enough to dilute the desired color in the palette and apply it to the drawing.

Usually red, white, yellow and brown colors(2:1:1:1). However, ocher (2:1:2) is often used instead of yellow and brown. For achievement desired color, sunburn or blush increase or decrease parts of a particular color. It should also be noted that it is undesirable to use pink instead of a combination of red and white.

For achievement pale color faces should not be painted thin layer to show through the paper. You just need to add more white or yellow paint.

You can also add a small amount of blue and green colors (both when drawing with gouache and with pencil coloring), however, you should only do this if you know exactly what you want and what you should get (for example, a sickly look or a shadow).

And finally, watercolor.

Watercolor is the most capricious of paints. Therefore, I would advise you to look for the color you need in the sets. If you combine colors, you will get either a daub in the drawing or a daub in the paints. However, if you practice enough, take good paper, paint and brush, you can get desired color again applying the base and adding the desired colors.

By the way, if you have watercolor pencils at your disposal, the task is noticeably simplified. In this case, it is necessary to color the drawing as with ordinary pencils (in no case less carefully) and draw a wet brush over the drawing.

Well, in general, that's all.